Can you read or write cursive?

[Anonymous]

I can write it but not read it 💀

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I had to practice it all the time when I was learning English, like this:

I even started to take a lot of pride in my penmanship and learned to vary stroke thickness with fountain pens.

Yet when I went to high school, the teachers demanded that we avoid cursive and just write everything in clear print. After that I stopped practicing cursive all together.

I've since forgotten the rules for some of the letters. It's been at least 30 years now, I think, since I last wrote in cursive. Kind of a shame.

I can still read it reasonably well though provided it isn't too sloppy.

[Asker]

Yea I remember these, they had dotted lines for the lowercase and bold lines for the capital 😂

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I miss that a bit! Maybe as a hobby, I should relearn how to write in cursive as impractical as it may be. When I was a boy, I always loved the idea of exchanging love letters with my girlfriend written in elegant cursive. It's so different from this age where we send text messages like, "Fine. HBU?" Not very romantic.

[Asker]

Yep sounds like a romantic gesture, valentines is coming up too so maybe it's a good opportunity

[BlissfullyCurSed]

Hard to believe, but there are some people who can speak in cursive. Coming back to your question, yeah I can write it and read it without any problem. Back in my childhood, it was compulsory for children to learn cursive at school in Turkey.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mB8piUc2fq0

[Asker]

I don't even know how to react to that

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I used to speak in cursive all the time when I was drunk! :-D

[BlissfullyCurSed]

@GuyAnswersGirls123 Congrats!😆

[midnightmoon05]

Yes. I was taught. Some of my students from India can also read and write in cursive.

[Asker]

Wait you are in India? I'm flabbergasted

[midnightmoon05]

No…I would like to visit India at some point…but not this summer.

I lived/work in a very very diverse city.
1/2 of my students are from India.

[Asker]

Foreal that's pretty crazy 🤔

[midnightmoon05]

Why?
Are you Indian in some ways?

[Asker]

No but there's a girl I've been talking to that s in India and I've been gaining curiosity about the country she lives in 😬

[midnightmoon05]

Cool!! She’s from GAG? Lots of Indians here.
Most Indians are good people/good families. we are happy that they make us good Indian food 🥘 🤤 hehehe

[Asker]

Yea I met her here, she's cool, I agree, I don't think I've tried the food but I've been told the same lol

[midnightmoon05]

There are different backgrounds… Punjabi, Bangladesh,.. etc…and diff religions and dialects.. so enjoy getting to know her.

[Asker]

Yep indeed and thanks

[purplepoppy]

Depends on who wrote it. I've been known to struggle to decipher my own writing.

[Asker]

💀💀💀💀

[Subglacial]

Sounds like you're already halfway to becoming a medical doctor. Get some prescription pads and practice that chicken scratch!

[Sonorous]

I can read it but not write it anymore. I forgot how but could easily learn if I wanted to tbh.

[Asker]

Yea it's not a difficult thing to learn, if anything it's just boring

[Sonorous]

Yeah it was always boring & useless to me 🤣

[Asker]

Lol.

[Massageman]

Ever since third grade about 65 years ago!

I can write it and read it. I come from a background in printing, though, so I'm used to reading things inverted as they would be on a printing press.

[Asker]

Does cursive count as a font?

[Massageman]

There are many typefaces that are cursive in design, and new ones are created each day. "Cursive" would be a genre or type of letterform. The are also block typefaces, serif typefaces, decorative and many others. A "font" is a particular typeface in a particular size, with particular modifiers (bold, italic/slanted, etc). So in theory, any typeface could have an unlimited number of font variations. ( My Bachelor degree was in Graphic Arts, so I eat, sleep and breathe this stuff every day! )

[Asker]

Fair enough, only like half of that made sense to me lol

[Massageman]

It confuses me after 60 years of dealing with this stuff! The term "font" has been diluted due to all the on-line media and apps that misuse the term "font". 1. A typeface STYLE or GENRE is the widest category. 2. Then you have many particular TYPEFACES in that category. 3. Then you have variations of that typeface, and each and every variation, in each and every size, is a different FONT. Think of a pyramid. STYLES would be at the bottom. TYPEFACES would be next up. A "font" is the smallest part of the pyramid and be right at the top.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Back in the day in school I learned to read & write cursive so yes I can read & write in cursive.

[Asker]

Yea they taught it in the school I went to also but I skipped a lot 💀

[strateguy632]

i learned both. rarely on tv they show cursive and it feels so new and odd to me compared to common or usual printer or email.

[Asker]

They show it on tv?

[WhiteSteve]

Oh my god….. Gen Z…. come on, you guys🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😂😂😂

[Asker]

Most people here know how to tho 😂

[WhiteSteve]

They drilled us SO hard in cursive. We had this guy Mr. Moran who would show up like twice a year and test you, and you’d get a sticker as a grade. I think it was Gold Seal, Gold Star, Silver Star, Blue Star, and Red Star….. if you got Red Star you were remedial as fuck, lmao. I think I usually got a gold star, I couldn’t quite hit the Gold Seal perfection level. That Mr. Moran guy would hit you with the same joke EVERY TIME too, he’d ask your age, and he’d say “you write you’re 11 going on 55!!!” He was a fuckin’ cornball, lmfao

[Asker]

You also had those papers specifically designed to teach cursive with the bold and dotted lines? 😂

[WhiteSteve]

Hell yeah. I had to write “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” so many damn times😂

[Asker]

Homie has that shit scarred in his brain from the amount of times they had his repeat that lmao

[WhiteSteve]

I’m telling you. Ain’t been right ever since😂

[Asker]

Damn brainwash is what it is lol

[NathanDavis]

both... calligraphy was one of my hobbies as well

[Asker]

Well I wonder how long that hobby lasted lol

[NathanDavis]

around 12 years or so...

once learned you hardly ever forget it or lose it... lol

[Asker]

So why you stop? Lol

[NathanDavis]

long story short... a lot of my hobbies and interests came to a halt, or a full stop during my early childhood and teens

depression sucks... lol

so, after that and as I grew up, it just took some time to catch up and pick up things again

[Asker]

So did you get back to your cursive shit? 😂

[NathanDavis]

yes, signatures... and notes, I still use cursive and personal letters as well

it's way more faster for me to write and I do have a neat penmanship

however on my personal notes on the daily, I am worse than a doctor, which is fine... because only I need to understand them anyway, lmfao

[Asker]

Have you tried any other types of writing styles? If they exist of cpurse

[NathanDavis]

yes, all of them...

so it would depend on what is it for so I know them all

[Asker]

You should try mixing them all lol

[NathanDavis]

that's a good idea... great exercise

[Asker]

Yep it must look wild

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I can kind of write it. But they stopped teaching that in like 5th grade.

[Asker]

But did they not teach you the whole alphabet in cursive? 🤔

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I wouldn't have remembered it. And I never got to do all of it anyway.

[Asker]

Fair enough ha

[exitseven]

Yes, we learned it in second grade. I still have the certificate suitable for framing that says I am proficient in cursive.

[Asker]

Was that your first accomplishment as a child

[exitseven]

No, probably toilet training

[Asker]

That's not an accomplishment, if anything that's a normal human evolutionary accomplishment lol

[exitseven]

With me it was an accomplishment.

[Asker]

Oof damn bro what you mean 😂

[exitseven]

I totally resisted the process. They were not going to break me.

[Asker]

Damn bro that sounds like a code brown situation 💀

[exitseven]

Yup. I was a dangerous baby

[Asker]

Damn homie needed the 12 ply diapers 😂

[exitseven]

And the power washer

[Asker]

Lmao

[Miah04]

I can do both. *boom* you may praise my excellence

[Asker]

That is some crazy excellence 😒

[Miah04]

The praise makes miah's ego grow👹

[Asker]

Okay I'm taking it back, gimme 😂

[Miah04]

No!!! Not my praise😭😭😭

[Asker]

Sorry I had too, for your own good lol

[Miah04]

🥺🥺

[Asker]

Can't see it, I got android

[Miah04]

Dang it. I got android too. Your phone is trash

[Asker]

I broke my shit when drunk and I had to adjust to an old phone I had laying around 😂🖕🏼

[Miah04]

😂😂see stop drinking

[Asker]

Not my fault 💀

[Miah04]

Who's fault is it mr. Drunky?😂

[Asker]

The floor ☻

[Miah04]

Why did it jump up and slap it out your hand?

[Asker]

No it was there at the wrong time 🙃

[Miah04]

Interesting

[Asker]

Lol.

[douride2]

Yes I learned to read & write back in grade school.

[Asker]

That's good, how sloppy is your handwriting?

[douride2]

So bad some times I can't read my own writing.

[Asker]

It be like that tho lol

[serenalovesramen]

no lol, it took me a while to learn English so cursive wasn’t rlly a thing i wanted to learn

[Asker]

You learned English pretty Well, I know this Cuban ass nigga my whole life and that stupid ass nigga still got an accent 😂

[serenalovesramen]

i still got a accent

[Asker]

Yea but when you say that you didn't know, do you say "I didn't knew" ? 😂

[Asker]

Besides how many years you've been in an English speaking country cause he was here since he was like 5 or someshit

[serenalovesramen]

isn’t that how u say it?
i moved in a English country when i was 16

[Asker]

You see, big difference, his brain was still developing at a high level when learning English, his brain was basically like a sponge back then, you were already a teenager when you started actually if I'm not mistaken you were either going through or already went through puberty at that age, let's not forget you aren't too much older either, that's 3 years, 3 years in that stupid ass nigga still only knew Spanish 💀

You say it like "I didn't know"

[serenalovesramen]

wait so did he start learning English before me

[Asker]

Way before 😂😂

You literally only have about 3 years of English in your life, he has over a decade, you learned English way quicker than him, i wouldn't expect you to not have an accent actually, I expect an accent at 3 years, nah foreal tho I know I'm roasting him hard here but it's all love 😂💯

[serenalovesramen]

im so smart loool

[Asker]

I mean I told you, you just didn't believe me, not as smart as me tho cause I knew you were smart before you did 😏😎

[serenalovesramen]

buddy im better at English then u

[Asker]

Okay don't get cocky now sniffles, I brought the chair 💺😂

[serenalovesramen]

u minus well sit down

[Asker]

Very bad time to fumble on your English sniffles 🤧

[serenalovesramen]

i didn’t fumble

[Asker]

Then what are you subtracting? You are taking my chair aren't you

[serenalovesramen]

bro shut up i didn’t fumble

[Asker]

Yea okay sniffles 😂🤐🤐🤐

[serenalovesramen]

you fumble

[Asker]

You like the word fumble don't you 😂🤧

[serenalovesramen]

i don’t even know what it means

[Asker]

The best way to describe it would basically be like messing up, fumble is only used tho when it's something you currently know but mess it up anyways either out of nervousness or just not thinking properly

[Asker]

For example let's say I can I can jump a fense on one leap but for some reason one time I fail to do it, i fumbled lol

[serenalovesramen]

o u fumble a lot then

[Asker]

Shut up 😂

That is floridian slang tho

[Asker]

Actually I just fumbled, look how I spelled fense 💀

[Asker]

It's fence lmao

[serenalovesramen]

imagine fumbleing couldn’t be me

[Asker]

You fumbled grammar putting that E on "fumbling" 💀

[serenalovesramen]

yeah there’s also E in be quiet

[Asker]

Couldn't be you huh little sniffles lol

Okay now I'll be quite 🤐😶

[Asker]

Quiet*

[Kingofkings1992]

I’m the opposite. I can read it, but my signature looks like a 5 year old did it. Lol

[Asker]

Lmao it be like that sometimes

[CaptainSmartass]

I can read it a bit, and I can write it, but its easier to read if I don't.

Simples...

[Veles]

Yes and yes, Chico.

[Asker]

Is it good tho cause my cursive looks like a tangled slinky

[Veles]

It's all part of your charm, Chico.

[Asker]

Thank you Vel or should I thank you in my slinky cursive? 🤣☻

[Veles]

I doubt I can read it lol.

[Asker]

Well it's the thought that counts 😂

[LazerBean]

Yes, how well I can read it depends though lol

[Asker]

Depends on their sloppiness 💀

[LazerBean]

Yeahhh... Yeah.

[MemeSupreme]

sorta but depends on their handwriting

[Asker]

Based on your response I'm assuming you can't write it

[MemeSupreme]

i can write it kinda

like i never properly learned that shit and i learned it through like seeing other people write it

[Asker]

That's a more difficult way to learn if you ask me

[MemeSupreme]

yeah... i dont recommend it. i learned the hard way by people roasting me when i got a letter wrong lmao

[Asker]

People really cared that much about cursive to start roasting others? Lol

[MemeSupreme]

friends do if i can't read somethin or write some shit wrong in high school

[Asker]

Oh friends, then that's a different story memey 🤣

[MemeSupreme]

oh yeah no one gives a fuck about your cursive lol just friends trying to be mean

[Asker]

There's really nothing you can do at that point besides roast back 😂

[RedInnocent68]

Yes. At least my own… 😂

[Asker]

Wdym your own bro 😂

[RedInnocent68]

I think I write cursive just fine, but people bitch about being able to read my writing even when I print sometimes.

[Asker]

Well that sounds like a them problem to me 😂

[Iron_Man]

Yes I can

[Asker]

That's what's up

[Iron_Man]

I try my best. What about you?

[Asker]

I only know how to write it and some letters I forget how to write them lol

[Iron_Man]

It’s OK nobody really writes that way anyway anymore everybody types on the Internet

[Asker]

Yep not only That, cursive only slows down your reading 😂